The Dylan comparison seems more and more off. It made sense on the acoustic records, since his voice is similar and he uses a similar fingerpicking pattern to Dylan. But Dylan's rock & roll records were never this soft.

I hate that. If someone is working for you and they make a mistake, talk to them about it or don't. Don't make a joke about it in public. Especially if it's a lame "I'm pretending to be a jerk so I can say exactly what I really think but if you try to respond I'll say it was just a joke" joke.

ET isn't really well done Hollywood schmaltz - it's near-perfect Hollywood schmaltz. And Close Encounters has those amazing moments, but it's lumpy. Really long, not always interesting. It's hard to choose between them. But i don't have to, so I won't.

He did the same thing the other week on the David Cross episode, and again on UTU2TM when they were playing the songs. I think he gets nervous whenever the jokes start to slow down, but I don't think he should be worrying so much about that. One of the nice things about podcasts is that they can move a little slower…

Holy shit. No, it has to be a true sequel. Marty's son goes back in time to 1985.

It's not a real Beach Boys record, but the Van Dykes Parks album Orange Crate Art is fantastic, and all of the vocals are sung by Brian Wilson. Pretty, catchy, intricate pop songs.

Uh, OK. Not sure what you're arguing with, since I acknowledged that both of those things are true.

It's been used (misused?) that way enough that dictionaries have added that as an alternate meaning, low on the list of meanings. (Languages evolve… blah blah… dictionaries are descriptive not prescriptive… whatever…)

Well, luckily, America has managed to get every decision right. SO FAR.

Yeah, Melville has a lot of personality and humor in his books.

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I've been really enjoying a podcast lately called Inside Jobs. It's ostensibly a conspiracy theory podcast, but in the best episodes, they spend 80% of the episode talking about well-established facts, and 20% speculating about things that might have occurred without making it into the historical record. And most of…

Completely agree. That was a hilarious episode. It featured a weird dad who, while only being slightly hammy, managed to discuss his sharp teeth, the precise date of the last time he threw up, and why he put a sock on a turkey leg. I'd say it's one of the best episodes.

The mother actually came off well. After a few interviews with her, it was pretty clear that she was nowhere near the tyrant they were portraying her as.

Although I will defend talking about routes and money - it's not interesting and it's not charming, but it can be informative and helpful to talk about them.

Yup. She was dead on.

The plot is bare, the dialogue is painful, and if there any underlying ideas, I'm not sure what they are.

It's hilarious how frustrated they get trying to use their own rating system.

I was coming here to post that. From the way they frame it in the show, you would never guess that it's in LA's Koreatown.

That's how I saw it. The rope was wrapped around her leg, but one end of the rope was unanchored, and was slowly sliding away off of her as the two of them drifted off together.